Mr Brains Scared Me For Years. (Tesco Mr. Brains 4 Faggots In Rich Sauce)

Member Name: roses28

Product:	Tesco Mr. Brains 4 Faggots In Rich Sauce
Date:	16/04/09 (253 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A very quick and easy meal that tastes amazing.

Disadvantages: nothing

**** Introduction ****

I always remember as a child my mother trying to force feed us kids fagots, as a child I hated them and cant really remember trying them, I think is was the name to put me off.

While in Tesco last week I found these on offer for £1.29 and my partner said that he loved them, so I thought if they are good enough for him they are certainly good enough for me, so I chucked them in the trolley.

**** The Fagots ****

These are produced by the Mr brains company, which I feel may have added to my dislike of these as a child.

The actual product contained four dumpling sized pork fagots, in a thick gravy sauce. I am not a massive meat eater but these were basically sausage meat rolled into balls and served with gravy.

These were frozen when I bought them so they did stay in the freezer until we fancied them, upon opening the package my childhood memories came floating back as it was four greyish looking balls situated on a frozen layer of orange coloured sauce.

At this point I really didnt fancy them but I persisted and throw them in the oven on 200 degrees for forty minutes, cooking time is a lot less if these are not frozen but they are recommended to be cooked from frozen.

You need not place these on an oven proof dish as they come in there own metal cooking tray when is great as it makes less washing up afterwards.

After about thirty minutes a checked my fagots and they smelt great, the meatballs seemed to have expanded and the gravy was looking really thick, it looked much nicer than it did when i took it out of the packet.

I served these with creamed mash potatoes and garden peas, to my surprise I really enjoyed the meal as they are basically sausage balls with seasoning and gravy.

**** My Views ****

I cant believe I have never eaten these sooner, It just goes to show that I should not judge before trying. I feel that if they called these something else they would sell more as the word brains can be very scaring and put peoplr off.

The meal was lovely and it was so easy to make, although forty minutes in the oven is a long wait when you are really hungry, but this i can cope with as I only had a few things to was up after dinner thanks to the tray supplied with these.

The metal cooking tray now gets used to roast my veggies as it is small enough fr two.

If these are something you have been put off by because of the name, I strongly recommend you try them.

Summary: Highly recommend by a converted fagot fan